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Firbank Fell

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Location
  
Lake District, England

Topo map
  
OS Landranger 97

Parent range
  
Lake District

OS grid
  
SD608939

Elevation
  
310 m

Firbank Fell wwwbrigflattsorgfoxspulpitjpg

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Wild Boar Fell, Howgill Fells, Lambrigg Fell, Aye Gill Pike, Baugh Fell

Firbank Fell is a hill in Cumbria between the towns of Kendal and Sedbergh that is renowned as a place where George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), preached.

Map of Firbank Fell, Kendal, UK

Fox described what happened there on June 13, 1652 in this way:

While others were gone to dinner, I went to a brook, got a little water, and then came and sat down on the top of a rock hard by the chapel. In the afternoon the people gathered about me, with several of their preachers. It was judged there were above a thousand people; to whom I declared God's everlasting truth and Word of life freely and largely for about the space of three hours.

Because of Fox's preaching there, the site is sometimes called "Fox's Pulpit." A plaque on the rock there commemorates the event, which is sometimes considered the beginning of the Friends movement.

Firbank Fell is now immortalised as a place of Quaker history in one of the four houses at the Quaker school Bootham School.

References

Firbank Fell Wikipedia